Quotes from Charles Dickens

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them

And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing that I never was happy with her, but always miserable.

Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.

One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.

She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

It is no small thing, when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.

Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.

in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . .

I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.

These books were a way of escaping from the unhappiness of my life.

Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.

If Husain (as) had fought to quench his worldly desires…then I do not understand why his sister, wife, and children accompanied him. It stands to reason therefore, that he sacrificed purely for Islam.